The Grace Cafe Podcast

Welcome to episode 10 of The Grace Cafe Podcast. In this first episode of 2024 we update you on what’s been happening with us, including Mike’s recent health scare, a little bit of our back story, and our current dilemma of community and church. Find us online and interact with…

Welcome to episode 9 of The Grace Cafe podcast. This is a past episode (98) of the old Grace Cafe from New Year’s Eve, 2020 that we wanted to share with you. In it, we talk about ways Christianity has weaponized faith and the Bible to enforce conformity. We’ll be…

Complimentarianism and hierarchy are not neutral. They are harmful to the people in it, especially women and children, and they are in opposition to the gospel of New Covenant grace. In this final installment of our series on women in the church, we talk about some of our personal struggles…

We’re closing in on the end of our series on women in the church. The topic in this episode is Can Women Be Pastors? One objection to women pastors that is raised by those opposing the idea is that Paul told Timothy an elder (pastor) has to be the husband…

Welcome to episode 6 of The Grace Cafe Podcast. We’re continuing our topic of women in the church and how historically, the church’s view of woman has been harmful and abusive. It’s not a good track record. In this episode we talk about headship and submission. We use 1 Corinthians…

We’re continuing with the overall topic we started back in episode 2 of women in the church. More specifically, how the institutional church has weaponized certain verses in the New Covenant scriptures and used them against women without fully considering the historical and cultural context. This has resulted in needlessly…

In this episode we take a look at the historical and cultural context of Paul’s first letter to Timothy and specifically, 1 Timothy chapter 2. In giving his reasons for writing this letter to Timothy, Paul instructs him to dispel myths that had arisen in the assembly (1 Timothy 1:3-4).…

Welcome to episode 3 of the recently re-launched Grace Cafe Podcast! In this episode we continue the series we started last time concerning women in the church. This week we start to explore the question, did Paul command women to be silent in church? This episode is a much needed…

Welcome to episode 2 of The Grace Cafe podcast! In this episode we’re launching a multi-part series centered around the topic of women in the church and how church history and tradition have damaged and diminished the way women can function within the body of Christ. We start in this…

Welcome to episode one of the relaunched Grace Cafe Podcast! In this first episode of The Grace Cafe, we talk about why it was necessary to stop the original Grace Cafe Podcast back in 2019 and how and why this relaunch came to be a reality. Our conversation takes us…